A rocky planet nearly 50 light-years away appears to be airless, dark, and covered in volcanic or weathered rock, according ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) exoplanet subject, LHS 3844 b, is a so-called "super-Earth" about 30% larger than our ...

A pair of scorched worlds circling the red dwarf TRAPPIST-1 now offer one of the clearest looks yet at what life may be up ...

The LHS 1903 system defies expectations with a rocky outer planet, prompting new ideas about how planets form and evolve.

Astronomers from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a giant exoplanet known as HATS-75 b. This exoplanet is one of the recently discovered Giant ...

The takeaway: An international team of astronomers has published a study on LHS 1903, a red dwarf star hosting a truly unusual planetary system. Unlike our solar system and many previously discovered ...

Quantum computers may help us see more exoplanets – and see them in more detail too. Astronomers have now found thousands of planets beyond our solar system, but they anticipate that there are ...

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, challenging many of the previously held assumptions about planetary ...

SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a “super-Jupiter” has substantial differences from our solar system’s ...

Space is full of unsolved mysteries, and a team using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have recently turned up a doozy. "I remember after we got the data down, our collective reaction was 'What the ...